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  Re: 3D Animation/Camera question  
From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Date: 1 Nov 2010 04:16:42
Message: <4cce776a$1@news.povray.org>
El Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:13:18 -0400, Carl escribió:

> 
>    I want to make a 3D animation.  Each frame will be two images, one
>    for the
> left eye and one for the right eye.  The two images will appear
> side-by-side and when you look through your monitor you'll see the 3D
> image in the middle.
> 
>    I know how to render half of each frame in POV-Ray by itself and I
>    can then
> combine the two images in paint or other image editor making each frame
> one at a time.  But that is too manual a process as I want to make
> several hundred frames.  Any way to do this directly in POV-Ray?  I'd
> like to be able to specify two cameras one for each eye and then have
> the image from each camera fill their respective half of the total
> frame.
> 

  You're lucky: the new mesh camera on beta 39 allows this and much more. 
Take a look at the included examples (scenes->camera->mesh_camera): there 
is a very rough example on how to create a stereo camera with it.

  Regards,


-- 
Jaime Vives Piqueres
		
La Persistencia de la Ignorancia
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